Taciturn Crema
Taciturn Crema (#EEE7E4) is a soft orange with a pastel character. It reads calm and airy, with enough chroma to feel intentional rather than washed out. Its HSL profile (18°, 23%, 91%) places it in the muted band at a light lightness. It works as a background wash, large-area fill, or soft illustration tone. Add a darker ink of the same hue when you need type over it. For a confident two-color system, pair it with its complementary cyan. For something softer, pull in its analogous neighbors on either side of the wheel.
Etymology
Latin taciturnus, silent / not-given-to-speech. As a color modifier, taciturn implies a neutral-and-quiet-and-not-talkative quality where the hue carries the visual register of Cistercian-monastic and Quaker-meeting-house silent-and-meditative interior-and-textile-finish. Sits at the neutral-and-quiet end of the grid, parallel to reticent and laconic in usage.
Italian crema, cream — the iconic pure-cream-pure-white-and-pale-yellow cream-skimmed-from-fresh-milk of Italian Lombardy-and-Emilia-Romagna dairy tradition, the base of crema-pasticcera (pastry-cream) and crema-catalana. Crema color refers to a freshly skimmed Lombardy-crema in a hand-thrown-clay serving-bowl: a pure white with the matte finish of fat-and-protein-emulsified fresh-cream with the characteristic crema thick-and-rich-pour texture.
Closest matches
The nearest named color in three reference sources, ranked by perceptual distance (ΔE76 in CIELAB). ΔE < 1 is imperceptible to most viewers; ΔE > 10 is clearly different. When two sources point to the same hex they’re merged into one tile; click any to open that color’s page.
Variations
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This color has effectively no chroma (OKLCH C = 0.009) — it’s on the grayscale axis. Hue rotations don’t change a grayscale color, so complementary, analogous, triadic, and split-complementary all reduce to the same value. They aren’t shown because four identical tiles would be misleading.
Accessibility
How this color appears to viewers with the four major color-vision-deficiency types. Computed via the Machado (2009) physiologically-based model. If a tile matches the original, the color reads the same to that viewer.
The color used as foreground text against pure white and pure black, with the contrast ratio and WCAG 2.1 grade. Aim for AA (4.5:1) for body text and AA Large (3:1) for 18 pt+ headlines; AAA (7:1) is the gold standard for long-form reading surfaces.
Wide gamut
The CSS Color 4 wide-gamut form of this color. Both swatches render the same color on every display — the P3 form only diverges from sRGB when a designer pushes channels outside sRGB's reach.
This color sits well within the sRGB cube. P3 and sRGB share the gray axis and most desaturated tones, so a P3 display renders this identically to an sRGB display.